The event with I attended was a networking/workshop event named “Designing Characters with Purpose” hosted by Brookes Eggleston. While in the event the topic that was mostly covered was exploring the fundamental principles that can help you create the characters that people care about in books, shows and movies such as various technique’s that movie studios use when make those characters.
During which there was an open Q & A handled by an advisor where questions were screened using the raising icon used in zoom or asking questions in the chat as there were many attendees from various parts of the country. What I learned was that most characters in movies and shows have what is called “Shape language” which is a distinct shape that are used to build a character which helps those characters to stand out to the audience that is viewing them to which they can even be viewed in a silhouetted form.
After the event there was a follow-up email after thanking people for joining the workshop and asking people for feedback to help keep making the workshops better. I found the event to informative it was helpful to hear from someone who has been in the industry for years to tell people how they can improve on their work while also telling people of the different companies that they have worked for and what the environments were like.
As for the speaker Brookes Eggleston who is a Character Designer, Illustrator, and Story Artist for nearly 15 years as a freelance artist and teaching character design to others while also working on his own various projects such as Character Compendium books, pins, and stickers while using these workshops to inform people on the ins and outs of a freelance artists life and how to go about run your own business on the daily.
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